Fuel and related compositions – Liquid fuels – Organic oxygen compound containing
Patent
1997-07-08
1999-01-12
McAvoy, Ellen M.
Fuel and related compositions
Liquid fuels
Organic oxygen compound containing
44642, C10L 118
Patent
active
058580310
ABSTRACT:
A method for enhancing the visibility of a flame produced during free-burning of an aqueous alcohol-based fuel composition in air. The fuel composition is substantially free of skin-irritants, corrosive salts and agents which, when burned in air, produce air pollution evidenced by the production of volatile organic compounds. The fuel includes between approximately 10% and 30% by volume of water, and between approximately 70% and 90% by volume of a mixture of alcohols including ethanol and isopropanol, the ethanol constituting between approximately 24% and 83% by volume of the fuel composition. The method includes providing an amount of isopropanol ranging between approximately 7% and 60% by volume of the fuel composition, in which the volume ratio of isopropanol to ethanol in the fuel does not exceed 2:1.
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Brandeis University
McAvoy Ellen M.
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